Farewell VS2005
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
I do have it installed on my home computer. I don't use it though. In my office computer, I just have VSTS 2008. I too am thinking to get rid of it. I guess it is time I should do that.
"No matter how many fish in the sea; it will be so empty without me." - From song "Without me" by Eminem
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I do have it installed on my home computer. I don't use it though. In my office computer, I just have VSTS 2008. I too am thinking to get rid of it. I guess it is time I should do that.
"No matter how many fish in the sea; it will be so empty without me." - From song "Without me" by Eminem
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
The main environment at my job is VB6, but we use Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 as well. Would be nice to move away from VB6, but I doubt that will happen for a while.
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
yes, I use it every day :thumbsup:
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yes, I use it every day :thumbsup:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Not 05, but I have 03 installed. The latest deployed version of one app I wrote at a customers site is written with the 1.1 framework; and we've still got contracts that include "support and updates to app as needed" so I need a 2k3 development environment on hand even if I don't actually use it. The current install is mostly inertia though; when I get re-imaged for win7 I'll probably not install 2k3 until/unless I actually need it. Since we skipped 2k5 entirely (customer legacy requirements) I still needed it when I got my last XP image installed.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
jsaindon wrote:
does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around)
Yes, and Yes. It doesn't get open very often, and when it does it is just to view something I wrote in college.
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
jsaindon wrote:
Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Yes, for doing SSRS Report development for report server 2005. Normal development is VS2008.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
I have a build virtual machine with VS2005. I start it only when I need it (in the last 1 year).
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Must be nice. We still use VS2003 on a daily basis, as we have a huge code base built with it. We don't have the time to convert to VS2008. It's all C++/MFC code, and there are relatively few breaking changes, but we would still have to make all the changes complained about by the compiler (there are a bunch), and then do a complete regression test. Fortunately, all work on The Big New Thing™ is being done with VS2008. I'm going to advocate we switch that to VS2010 once it's released and appears stable (like in 2015).
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The main environment at my job is VB6, but we use Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 as well. Would be nice to move away from VB6, but I doubt that will happen for a while.
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
jsaindon wrote:
Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Yes, but for only one of my (MFC) freeware apps. Its conversion to .NET will also allow me to uninstall VS2005! /ravi
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
I have the 3.5's somewhere.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
jsaindon wrote:
It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release.
The good thing is, our development tools age along with us. So the older we get, we don't really notice how much slower the tools get. About a year ago I had to install VC6 on a virtual machine to resurrect an old project. It was so fast, I couldn't keep up! :rolleyes: Marc
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jsaindon wrote:
It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release.
The good thing is, our development tools age along with us. So the older we get, we don't really notice how much slower the tools get. About a year ago I had to install VC6 on a virtual machine to resurrect an old project. It was so fast, I couldn't keep up! :rolleyes: Marc
Totally ;) The tools seem to get chunkier as we move forward. But one line of LINQ = 10000+ lines of Assemby. My old Merlin compiler for the Commodore64 was *way* more responsive than VS, but the overall productivity you get is worth it. Ecconomies of scale!
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I have the 3.5's somewhere.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
Yes we do as in office everyday
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Totally ;) The tools seem to get chunkier as we move forward. But one line of LINQ = 10000+ lines of Assemby. My old Merlin compiler for the Commodore64 was *way* more responsive than VS, but the overall productivity you get is worth it. Ecconomies of scale!
jsaindon wrote:
Ecconomies of scale!
No wonder the world is suffering from massive debt! As a purely intellectual argument, I'm not convinced that my productivity has improved. Complexity has increased, the cost of a "solution" has increased, and from what I've experienced, the amount of time to produce the solution has increased as well. So overall, I think productivity is decreasing. :) And then, to throw in the philosophical question that nobody seems to ask, except for aging pundits (which perhaps I am one), is all this really necessary? Does it actually improve the quality of our lives? Marc
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
Yes. I am currently updating a COM component that is used by girly ASP.NET. Well, because if you want to write something that actually does something more than display HTML pages, you HAVE to use C. And I am pissed off at modern *programmers* using ASP calling themselves *programmers*. Surely these half-men could use some brain cells and stop calling themselves "programmers". Sorry about the rant.
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